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Thank you for posting your solution. It's never too late for future folks searching for the same problem!

@therube
You might add something like this to your uBlockOrigin filters:

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freefilesync.org##.topiclist>.row>div>.ffs-forum-link>div:last-of-type:style(color:white!important)
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But then the tooltip should say show/hide and not only show.

Long lines are bad for fast reading and keeping the line... that's why every newspaper has a layout in small columns, even for long texts.

/edit
You can change it for yourself with addons like Stylus .

Example for your specific problem:
/* ==UserStyle==
@name freefilesync.org - 10.2.2023, 14:52 ...

No matter if the button will hide or will show the specified files, the tooltip always says "show".
It does not recognize/represent the current state of the button.
FFS 12.0, German localization

Thank you for your answer.

Well I've never been using OneDrive on the PC where the copying happens. Immediately disabled / uninstalled by W10privacy. Don't have a Microsoft account either.

So it's purely from the Windows profile folder to be copied. Amazing.

Or maybe self-activated by some update ...

ok I tried copying it directly ctrl+c & ctrl+v

Same error (0x8007016A), so it's a Windows problem!

Nevermind.

Hi!

I'm not using OneDrive or other cloud services in this regard.
Just mirroring a windows profile from external HDD to laptop internal backup location (so no active profile or windows special protected folders).

10:58:54 Fehler Die Datei
"F:\Users\maria\OneDrive\Erste Schritte mit OneDrive ...

Thank you, this clever approach seems to have done the trick!
I was able to delete thousands of orphaned files.

Switch includes / excludes for every folder pair and overall,
compare to empty folder, mark all results by "Ctrl + A" and then delete.

For the googlers: Make sure you get rid of the ...

Thank you for the answer.
I hoped for something I hadn't seen like a "Radical Mirror" option or something :)

The main problem arises from stuff that was synchronized by accident and excluded later.

Now the remains are orphaned in the Backup and it is quite laborious to remove everything by hand (e ...

Hi!
Simple example:
C:\ should be mirrored to D:\

Filter says
"\BigData\" is ignored

on D: there already exists D:\BigData\

What I want: D:\BigData\ should be deleted because C:\BigData\ is ignored.

But apparently it is not deleted as the filter "\BigData\" also targets the mirror-side.
If I try ...

IMHO it should state that comparisons are case-insensitive.

https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=exclude-files

Ah yes, the other guy had the same problem (didn't find that post earlier).
Thank you for the workaround!

Yeah changing current behaviour imho doesn't make sense. It's sufficient for most cases. Adding some RegEx support would be a very welcome powerful tool, but may be slowing down comparison ...

That's not correct.
Yep it was a wild guess.

So, then it is obvious that if you remove exclusions, for those files a (new) comparison needs to be performed.


From the logic behind: yes, obvious. As an enduser: No.
I rather would have guessed it automatically starts a new comparison after ...

they would just wait and come back
So what else is a regular user supposed to do?
After this gratuitous offense and waste of time, I as a regular user wouldn't come back. As a spammer/troll I probably would, this looks like a challenge and chance for revenge. Non-automated spamming is done for fun ...

Hi,
Situation: Made a comparison, not synced yet.

When changing filters in a way that afterwards there are more files to handle, a new comparison is needed. This should be communicated via alert or something!
If you are changing filters in a way that afterwards there are less files to handle, the ...

Mmhm there currently is no real file type filter.
will also match a folder like that: You would need e.g. a "stop" character like $ in RegExps:

Hi,

I think it is worth mentioning somewhere that the wildcard asterisk acts greedy here, which means it will match as much as possible.

Therefore, exclusion filter \SubFolder\*.tmp will exclude all .tmp files (and folders) in SubFolder, no matter how deep in the hierarchy (e.g. \SubFolder ...

Sync after installing Anaconda which has ~120.000 small files:

Speed goes down (even to zero!?) and estimated time to finish goes wild. As this may have many many reasons, I'd suggest at least doing something for the UI and converting hours to days / years or simply "> 1 week" also in the x-axis of ...

Same here (2018-12-07). It doesn't seem to be a random ad.

I always struggle to disable my adblocker because then I also disable the tracking protection (google is everywhere...).
So in this case I still block the ad because it's too irritating and prefer donating. I think that helps much more.

Just rename / move / delete the .wav sounds you don't want to hear from the program directory.

Thanks for the fix, I hope it was helpful and not too picky :-)
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Here it says
RealTimeSync is not required to start FreeFileSync. It can also be used in other scenarios, like sending an email whenever a certain directory is modified.
but I think what was meant is
RealTimeSync does not require to start FreeFileSync. It can also be used in other scenarios, like ...

Sounds like a misunderstanding here.

You still have your keyfile and are just missing the donation edition installer, right?
I think Zenju can send you just the fitting installer so you can reinstall it.

This is under the assumption that the donation edition installer is the same for everyone and ...

Not sure what you want to do... if your master has errors, you shouldn't do anything with it but throw it away and buy a new one.
If it has errors you have to see every file on that master as possibly defect. You can't notice errors just by looking at the file size.

However, nothing keeps you from ...

@volker01
The email is just irritating. The backup was sucessful, although it says differently.
It's just a warning which you can ignore if you are sure you selected everything as you wanted.

I don't know about all the different warnings out there, but if the backup wasn't successful, you will get ...

Hi,
in https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=exclude-items please add more examples to make it clearer.

If I want to exclude something via rightclick on the bottom left, the menu often offers something like
\myfolder\
*\myfolder\

and you don't know what the difference is.

So please add
All ...

In my eyes "Mirror" is the most used option because regular people use FFS mainly for direct backups. Two way syncing is restricted to "the magic apple cloud" *rolleyes*

However, an editable default.ffs in the program folder would be very comfortable.
If no default.ffs is found, use the hardcoded ...